Issue 38: Found Clarity on my Mission
Never Explain, Never Complain, Building AI application for human self improvement [9/21 -9/28 2025]
I have been building AI startups since the summer of 2023. Around March 2024, I got the idea for LuminaLog.com, an AI journal. I worked on it for about three months, then I moved on to another project, joining as a co-founder, an app that made binaural beats and frequencies for focus.
Next I left this startup, realizing I needed to pursue my own path, that I had some intuition for but still wasn’t clear to me exactly what it would be. I built an AI app called Manifestly that uses AI to help people remember what they want to ‘manifest’ as I took a course on this topic and was very interested in the psychology of moods and mental states that some claim can help you attain any goal that you desire.
My realization is that indeed anything is possible, we have the hardware to be a multi billionaire, or make a valuable contribution in any field that we desire, but that what stood in the way was lacking the software, either the conviction, the practices, the perspectives, and so I saw manifesting as a potential tool to iterate on the software side. This app then expanded to be an all in one AI app with many AI tools. Then I presented this app to some audiences at ETHDenver, a big crypto conference in late February 2025. I got some feedback that was interesting, some good but also some really encouraging ones.
Then I went through a period from March 2025 until around now, where I wasn’t sure what I wanted to work on. I experimented with crypto apps, VR, prototyping AI Agentic marketplaces on crypto, and built a vibe coded AI image and video editing app, that ended up being a lot more complex and time intensive then I expected. From a week project it turned into nearly two months. Then I built and launched another app called Imagym that uses AI to help you visualize your desired goals. Both apps were very difficult to create, manage and grow. I realize that this is not what I want to work on. I realized that I need to have a clear mission and goal. I explored different ideas like building an app that builds crypto backend apps.
Last night I made an intention for the night, that I wanted to find out what the f—k I needed to be doing with my f—king life. A statement with strong emotion and determination.
Over the course of the night I found my answer. It was clear that what tripped me up, was trying too hard to fit in expected categories of what an AI SAAS app is supposed to be doing. I realized I just have to set a clear mission for myself, and that the how will reveal itself on the way. I realized my mission was to build an AI app that allows each individual to become super human. This means to understand themselves, to better self regulate, make decisions, get the information they need, practice the skills they need to develop.
We already have this magic ability of AI models in various modalities, text, image, video, audio. We just need to combine them together for this purpose of helping the individual learn, grow, earn and connect. The AI journal is a critical component as a first step. I realized I need to keep building LuminaLog.com, with the journal, and keep experimenting with new features that will serve this clear mission statement. This includes chat with PDF, using multi chat windows, using image and video generation with yourself as the main character in narratives, anime and scifi, performing deep research. Tracking everything about what you do, your time in 15 minute intervals, what you eat with macros and diet tracking. There are many more possibilities here. Perform research on what works best. Create the ability to search through all scientific research papers, write new academic papers and make new scientific discoveries. Experiment with different features, measure the results, and keep going. Go after this with a holy war kind of focus like Steve Jobs did for the personal computer revolution.
I asked myself what the f—k am I supposed to do with my f—king life, and the answer I got was, to build AI to make us supermen, go back to building LuminaLog.com, an AI journaling app I started in March 2024, don’t worry about the how, it will evolve and change, but the most important thing is to have a clear vision of where you want to achieve, that is an AI app that enables the individual user to become superhuman.
I reflected and meditated on the question of ‘what is my calling’? I remember one of the earliest times when I was about six or seven year old boy in Poland, when I was on my uncles farm in Padew Narodowa, I told people around me I wanted to be a farmer when I grew up. Then in college my first major was Environmental Studies. I dreamed of studying the planet Earth and making scientific discoveries that will push humanity forward. I took some amazing classes on this and discovered John Muir, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. I was obsessed with them. I read Walden cover to cover about three times, then I got the audio book version and just listened to it in my car all the time. I would go fishing in the local forest preserve. Why did I feel this deep calling for this. Then I changed my major to Chemistry in my second year, I just felt it didn’t make sense. Then I changed to Polish Studies the next year, I discovered writers like Witkacy and Gombrowicz and I longed to discover more about what is Metaphysics, why was I as a guy born in Poland so different from everyone around me, I wanted to learn more about literature, Philosophy and history. I searched for what is my purpose. I read Joseph Conrad’s works and resonated deeply. Having the same name, and having a similar life story, maybe I needed to be a writer. I connected with a renown Polish Literature professor in my college and I was excited for the opportunity to have a connection with someone that can impart more wisdom and knowledge. I discovered many gems in this time.
After college I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do. I really wandered. I met a girl that was a writer from one of the top colleges, Northwestern University. In a conversation she asked “do you write?” and made a gesture with her hand as if writing with a pen. Then I understood I needed to be writing every day, journaling, and that I needed to be a human being that writes and reads every day as I drink and eat every day. It’s just part of my identity.
Then I discovered coding. I went on a date with a beautiful girl. We went to the Art Institute, then a French Cafe in Chicago’s beautiful downtown. She was 24 I was 26, just about to turn 27. At the cafe, she told me about her friend that was a music major, and that after not finding any work after graduation, she joined a coding bootcamp. She was spending all her time studying coding and had no more time to meet with friends. I was instantly amazed, how can a person become a programmer at this age, I thought you needed years of training and college degree. From that day on, I will always remember it was middle of May 2016, the most beautiful time of the year. I felt very sad that time was slipping away and I still didn’t know what I was supposed to be doing with my life. From that day on my life instantly changed, I realized there was nothing more that I wanted then to be a coder. To me this realization was that coding is a tool for your self evolution. You become a superhuman when you learn to code. It teaches you how to think.
I remember sitting in a cafe in February 20216, in Uptown, a beautiful ‘outpost cafe’ in an old 1920’s building. It was a regular work week, I was on my MacBook Air, doing some research about possible careers, noting that the demand for programmers was very high and it was very high paid job. I was writing my in my paper journals, and thinking about what to do with my life, then I remember realizing that I needed to become better at thinking. That I grow and make progress by thinking better, writing makes me think better and that learning to program, you are forced to spend hours doing very difficult thinking, and that it was an even better way to develop your thinking more then writing. I realized there was no better way to make money, then to get paid to develop and sharpen your thinking. You are essentially getting paid to become better and develop your highest most powerful faculty that humans have.
That is why I was called to create an AI journal, because I need to be writing every day, and with AI baked into your writing, you instantly get a second infinitely expanded thinking capacity. This insight convinced me this is what I need to be working on.
In conclusion, I found my purpose, that is to build AI tools for making each individual super human. This is my purpose because it is the cause that I can apply my talents, my brain power, my life energy that will have the highest good for the most people. It is my way to say thank you to the Universe for giving me this beautiful gift of life. It is my hope and dream to build tools that will make my home city of Chicago, my other home in Poland, and for all people on Earth to flourish, for all kids and adults to turn their inherent great potential into actuality. Yes being a writer, being a farmer or an Environmental Studies scientist, are all amazing things to be doing, I have to focus, I have to choose one. I choose this mission to build AI tools to make humans Superhuman.